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I was on the bases last year with R2. Batter comes to the plate and I hear R2 tell F6 he made his bat in wood shop. “TIME”! The bat was 29” 52oz. I nicknamed it “Bam Bam”.

Ha! That makes sense when you put it that way. But I'm a first year ump and found it puts me out of a "rhythm", for lack of better words, when I have to think about seeing it right on my indicator and calling it in "reverse order" of what my indicator shows. So, I switched to a call order indicator just to it one less thing I need to worry about.

So just a random wonder here. Why are the majority of indicators strike then ball? Not like call order indicators where balls, then strikes are displayed. I use a call order indicator and find it much easy and just one last thing to have to "think about" while in the game. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

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Same here. Pet peeve. Umps that constantly check their indicators sometimes after every pitch. Just notch the wheels or, at least, adjust your mask with your left hand and take a peek

Just Google “balls on top.” You’ll find what you need.

Take the elbow armor away. What would the batter had done if he knew he was going to get hit in the elbow by a 95mph fastball? 100% he would have done anything other than what he did with the armor. If anyone has ever been hit in the elbow with a pitch at any velocity...you go out of your way to not have that happen again. This is almost impossible to get in real time. But it's pretty clear after video review.

That's what I am starting to wonder about ... they are making a big deal about these "new rules" that, um, don't appear to be in the rule book. The only thing I could find is that the pitcher has 12-seconds to deliver a pitch with no runners on base ... and that isn't what we've seen. Pitcher delays, 5.07(c) I edited my post above and added the link to the 2023 book. To put words in Yogi Berra's mouth, "If it ain't there, it's in the fine print." Yes, I am umpining.

Doesn't answer your question but FYI 2022 OBR https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/mlb/hhvryxqioipb87os1puw.pdf Oh... and MSU. It's MSU.

I was taught to go up and back, as it keeps the same vision "angle", in general the perspective will be the same.